ADAM TOOZE

So the Philadelphia airport is playing Nixon’s resignation speech over the intercom and it feels wonderfully shady

Nigeria's lack of fiscal capacity is spectacular -> does not have resources necessary to make the public sector int… https://t.co/5owXbimoN4

Whereas Nigeria’s growth rate has been crippled by fall in oil prices and structural issues, Ethiopia has ramped up… https://t.co/qUpDpx7bMi

one for @policytensor https://t.co/SbbmGXqMht

"Nigeria, a country whose population may this year pass 200m, distributes and consumes about as much electricity as… https://t.co/AAM4gOOGdy

Since collapse in oil prices in 2014 Nigeria’s growth prospects have collapsed, pointing to future of 0 per capita… https://t.co/BECAM1O8M3

In financing and insurance the global farming industry receives a share of total global credit supply of only 2.9 p… https://t.co/N2q19WWPz5

China, China, China – acting Sec of Defense Shanahan has one key message for the DoD.: the high tech great power co… https://t.co/RJ6zARletU

Lockheed Martin’s learning curve for the F35 fighter: labour costs per aircraft have fallen by 70% or more as produ… https://t.co/5x1XrBb8UD

Not all debt poses the same kind of risks: Foreign ownership of local currency bonds is a major indicator of vulner… https://t.co/cyrJPYj9vX

Since 2001 the US government has spent $55.5 bn developing the F35 fighter aircraft. Is there any other single proj… https://t.co/BHsQSxYaOE

America’s myopic focus on the bilateral deficit with China obscures broader shift towards balance or even deficit i… https://t.co/szK71FUuQH

If there are c 75 F35 aircraft on one of America’s new Ford-class aircraft carriers, given current program costs, t… https://t.co/fUFVzyuWEe

Exercising leverage on Turkey, the US insists that new F-35 fighter and Russia’s much sought-after S-400 AA technol… https://t.co/YJgq1gkREH

@kapelianis @AthertonKD theres an even better graph to come ….

The production of the F35, by far the largest program of the Pentagon, shows classic learning curve effects.… https://t.co/3z6xY9ge6l

“You can’t just drop them off” In Russia’s S-400 AA units "the actual bits of metal are less valuable than the soft… https://t.co/7t1AyalAz6

If you want to see US government&industry doing something really big and complicated the F35 program is a good plac… https://t.co/r3aXEQahZ8

The Pentagon currently has an acquisitions portfolio of c. $1.65 trillion in pipeline of which 63.7% is pre 2010, 2… https://t.co/uO5DQvmR8f

"such advances as occurred from Thursday to Monday are only possible for this extraordinary man, whom it is impossi… https://t.co/j6UxOd0yFW

Japan’s machine tool sector – a truly old school business cycle indicator – is seeing a collapse in order worse eve… https://t.co/7gOR5fMwd0

"such advances as occurred from Thursday to Monday are only possible for this extraordinary man, whom it is impossi… https://t.co/rltveE4M76

America’s small business owners have hair trigger reflexes when it comes to wage growth. They are worrying more tod… https://t.co/SeM5rI7r7T

This website does the lord’s work tracking subsidies garnered by corporations across the US. @SubsidyTracker… https://t.co/XhRmCe7Xfw

Treasure Hunting: "The Nanking Cargo” salvage from South China Sea of the The Geldermalsen, a Dutch East India com… https://t.co/tGNwK6Hdqn

Reading in Shopping for Pleasure. Women in the Making of London’s West End by Erika Diana Rappaport was a really we… https://t.co/exhWrR8U4R

Rosalind H. Williams Dream Worlds. Mass Consumption in Late Nineteen-Century France (1982) is extraordinary amongst… https://t.co/80w2FqxPq2

End of the social contract: This chart of the disparity in growth in real annual wages in US since 1980 btw top 1 a… https://t.co/9Veyqz11u1

The trend towards wage inequality in US since 2000 is much more pronounced amongst men than amongst women.… https://t.co/FSBT67m4Fp

Remember Tanya McDowell? She got 12 yrs for sending her 6 yr old son to Norwalk CT’s Brookside Elementary School w… https://t.co/SFZrnDNs0s

This @SubsidyTracker website is outstanding in bringing together data on Federal, state and local level support for… https://t.co/tSduWYLXOH

Have a question for @sobel_mark, @IMFNews and @RobinBrooksIIF. How can a country (the Netherlands) have a persist… https://t.co/BsHddUVAcQ

EM positioning overhang: a decade of QE sent a wall of money to EM, so that real money investors are now overloaded… https://t.co/5fNxlGBMSa

The huge surge in global fibre and textiles production since 1980 has been met almost entirely through synthetics w… https://t.co/nipEKETo9j